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Embroidery might not be groundbreaking or new, but the craft is clearly having a moment. We’re not talking about the circular pieces you might see your mom working on right before she goes to bed—this embroidery shows up on photographs, metal objects and even human hands.

We’ve come a long way from grainy photos with splashes of colored embroidery; see more on Design Observer

Embellished photos date back to the turn of the century, originating as a simple method of adding a personal touch to mementos. We’ve come a long way in terms of art and photography, but this trend is still making appearances in modern art and design—sometimes on photographs, and other times on our own skin.

More recently, artist Diane Meyer has developed a more contemporary take on embroidered photography, effectively ‘pixelating’ regions of photographs into geometric ‘averages’ of the colors there. The result is a kind of handcrafted ‘artifact,’ both in the sense of a meaningful object and the degradation of a compressed digital image file.

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